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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  John Mulaney has a joke about how his parents knew Bill Clinton that way, from all going to undergrad together at Georgetown. Apparently all the women loved being escorted by Bill Clinton, and the men were all jealous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Paul Morphy, chess genius and sometimes described as best in the world in the mid-1800s:

  “The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need a normal distribution or statistical independence. It just requires that any given key combination remain possible.

  No matter how unlikely, anything that is possible will eventually happen in an infinite time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some infinities are bigger than others, though.

  Even if you have countably infinite monkeys typing countably infinite strings for an infinite period of time, there will be an infinite number of strings that the monkeys haven’t typed, that will never be in the set of completed typed strings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two new monkeys show up, and even though the infinite rooms and infinite typewriters are already occupied, you can make room for them by making all of the monkeys move over one room, and putting the new monkeys in that newly vacant room with the newly available typewriters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elevated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just purely aesthetic, although that is a big part of it.

  Some of it is actual quality not related to safety: if fruit is being processed after insects have already gone to town on it, that’s not the same quality of fruit that should’ve been used, and might actually affect the flavor.

  Some of it is still safety. Freezing foods generally don’t kill bacteria, and sometimes don’t even kill molds or other fungi. Neither do packaging for shelf stable dry foods like flour, rice, cornmeal, etc. That’s why the danger in raw cookie dough comes from the flour, not the eggs.

  And it’s an indirect issue, but insect contamination may also be an indicator of other dangers that aren’t solved by processing. Metal shavings or bits of rock can get into food, and having a tightly controlled process should prevent those dangers, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elevated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t have the time for homemade, store bought is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slang term for ejaculating, usually with some projectile distance implied. Very popular term in the mid-2000’s, see Get Low by Lil Jon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how you want to use Lemmy. When using it as a link aggregator, you’d probably want to hide the stuff you’ve already clicked on. But as a discussion forum, it doesn’t hurt to go back to threads you’ve already seen to see what new comments have been made since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen a new bank branch open with a drive through in a long, long time. Most banks just have multiple ATMs in the drive through, as there’s very little you’d need a teller to do compared to what the ATMs can do now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the fastest way to get original physical documents from one side/floor of the building to another.

  When I was a kid that was the standard way that banking drive throughs worked, too. You’d drive up to the multi-lane drive through, each station would have a pneumatic tube for handing off cash or checks or receipts between the car and the teller in the window. It pretty much ended when ATMs could start handling cash and checks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taco Bell was a cynical invention by Alexander Graham Bell to sell more Bell peppers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A dating app just for us⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Code switching is a thing.

  I have my professional voice for work emails and meetings and stuff like that. I still joke, but usually it’s the kind of mild humor that can be broadcast on TV no problem. I also avoid self deprecating humor on anything actually related to the job (I can still joke about being a bad dancer or singer or athlete or whatever).

  I have my parent voice when dealing with my kids’ schools, doctors, friends’ parents, etc. Most of my jokes here are relatable parent humor.

  I have my casual voice when dealing with strangers outside of work: friends of friends, neighbors, etc. I joke but don’t really do anything with politics, religion, sex, profanity, etc.

  And as I get to know friends, I have several distinct voices that I use, depending on our connection and their own style. I know whether they’re on my wavelength for political humor, crass/sexual humor, etc. And perhaps most importantly, the style of humor: I’ll make references to specific TV shows I know the other person loved (Simpsons, The Office, Tim Robinson, etc.), other specific interests (sports, programming, food), which style of online meme is popular with the other person, etc.

  My wife has seen all of these parts of me. We still exchange funny stuff we find on the internet on our shared interests and style of humor, even if it’s only a subset of all the things we find funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of it is horny old dudes and how much is actually lonely old dudes. These types of arrangements, somewhere in the gray area between transactional paid sex work and companionship between equal partners might not satisfy the loneliness part of the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The plot of Austin Powers revolves around thawing a man who has been frozen for 30 years, from 1967 to 1997. Only 2 years to go before we reach 30 years from that movie’s release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Colin Farrell in Phone Booth perfectly captured that early 2000’s feeling of where we were, technologically.

  1998’s You’ve Got Mail does, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (I must say I disagree completely with that guy sharing messages from his girlfriend- that piece is very weird and a total breach of trust)

  My impression from the original post was that kind of stuff was what drove most of the fallout. Leaked off color memes aren’t going to ruin people’s relationships, but leaked shit talk or breaches of someone else’s privacy will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've done it again...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re thinking of bacillus cereus, which grows on cooked rice or pasta stored at room temperature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I learned how to drive, manual transmissions were higher performance and better fuel efficiency: side by side comparisons of the exact same model of car would show better 0-60 and quarter mile times, while having slightly better EPA fuel efficiency ratings, for the manual transmission.

  At some point, though, the sheer number of gears in an automatic transmission surpassed those in the typical manual gearbox, and the average automatic today has 6 gears, up to 9 in some Mercedes and 10 in certain Ford and GM models. So they could start selecting gear ratios for better fuel efficiency, without “wasting” a valuable gear slot. There was a generation of Corvettes that was notorious for having a 6th gear that was worthless for actual performance but helped the car sneak by with a better highway fuel mileage rating.

  And the automatics became much faster at shifting gears, with even the ultra high performance supercars shifting to paddle shifters where the driver could still control the gear, but with the shifting mechanism automated. Ferrari’s paddle shifter models started outperforming the traditional stick shift models in the early 2000’s, if I remember correctly. As those gear shifting technologies migrated over to regular automatics, the performance gap shrunk and then ended up going the other way.

  At this point there’s not enough reason for a true manual stickshift transmission. It’s no longer faster or more economic, so it’s just a pure fun. Which is fine, but does make it hard to actually design one for any given model of car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some steep stop sign intersections in San Francisco that I’ve had to use the e brake for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The average added sugar consumption for American adults is about 70g per day, which works out to be 25.6 kg (56.2 lbs) per year. People can shift their source of sweetener and consume a dramatically higher amount of honey without necessarily having a diet that is all that different from the national average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I plan on going abroad in the coming year

  See world. Oceans. Fish. Jump. China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gauging with pasta: angel hair, thin spaghetti, spaghetti, thick spaghetti, bucatini, penne, rigatoni, all the way up through big-ass cannelloni.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most starches gelatinize between 60°C to 80°C. Including rice, which has starches that gelatinize between 59°C and 72°C.

  Not sure where you’re getting the idea that rice needs to cook above 100°C, which is just plainly inconsistent with how most cultures have cooked rice for thousands of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5% salinity is inedibly salty. You will ruin your pasta or rice, flavor wise. The health effects are not relevant because nobody will actually finish eating an entire serving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be overcooking it. Once the cell walls rupture too much, the sulfur compounds spread out and start to overpower the rest of the vegetable. It should still be somewhat firm/crisp when you bite into it.

  You might also be using broccoli that’s had too many of the cell walls ruptured from processing before cooking. If you’re cutting with a dull knife, especially into small pieces, or smashing it somehow before cooking, those smells will leak out a bit faster.

  Or, if you’re cooking from frozen, the ice crystals might have mushed up the vegetable.

  Here’s the two main ways I cook broccoli:

  Blanched: cut broccoli into big florets, big enough to constitute two big bites. Boil a lot of water, salted to about 2% salinity. Once it’s a rolling boil, put the broccoli in, and set a timer for 4 minutes. As soon as the timer goes off, dump the broccoli into a strainer and run cold water over it, or dunk it in ice water, to stop the cooking process. Serve and eat.

  Roasted: cut broccoli into big florets. Toss in oil, and season with salt and pepper. Preheat oven with a sheet pan in it, to 450°F. Once preheated, take the broccoli and place it in a single layer on the sheet pan. It should sizzle. Roast for about 15-20 minutes, optionally flipping once (better char if you don’t flip it, but it’s only on one side).

  Optional seasonings: garlic, pepper, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, honey, bread crumbs, pine nuts, any combination of the above. Works with either blanched or roasted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not real... *for now*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The phone only draws a charge while you’re watching ads, so you’ll need to watch an hour per day to recharge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

  There’s not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn’t make as big of a difference as it used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But they are two bangin shirts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think most people consider dates to be the same as dressing up for work. One can look “nice” without having to look like a white collar drone in a boring workplace.

  For example, I have different suits and ties for the workplace (conservative, standard dark colors) versus for things like weddings (brighter, more expressive colors and patterns and fabrics).

  But even short of that level of formality, there are fashion choices that can attract attention. If you’re in an environment where the dress code is to wear a collar and some buttons, there’s a difference between a plain polo (whether cotton or some kind of performance polyester athleisure) or a short sleeve buttoned shirt with some fun prints (whether we’re talking about Dan Flashes or a Hawaiian shirt or something more subtle), on top of the decision on whether to wear that shirt tight or loose or baggy.

  Or, some people make conscious choices for their athletic wear, when they’re going to the gym or for a run or a bike ride, or playing sports like golf or basketball or tennis.

  For people who are going on dates, the attire can convey a message, either intentional or not. And people might choose to send completely different messages in the workplace versus on dates versus just out with friends.